Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer 10 January 2019 to Question 205889 on Pharmacy: Finance, for what reasons clawback rates were not included in those figures.

The answer given to Question 205889 was in relation to fees, which remunerate pharmacy contractors for National Health Service pharmaceutical services, for example dispensing. Clawback, alternatively referred to as the deduction scale, relates to reimbursement, i.e. payment for dispensed products. Therefore it was not included in the figures which were given in the answer to that question, it would be inappropriate to include clawback in the calculations involving fees.